The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Marc A. Thiessen: Veterans Deserve Better
• Ben Shapiro: Who Controls Your Kids’ Lives?
• Walter Williams: Educational Fraud Continues
• Terence Jeffrey: Do Liberals Want These Migrants to Die?
• Jonah Goldberg: North Korean Regime Can’t Be Swayed Through Diplomacy

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Opinion in Brief

Ben Shapiro: “It’s one thing for the government to step in when parents are preventing children from receiving life-saving care. It’s another when the government steps in to prevent parents from pursuing potentially life-saving care. And yet that’s just what has happened repeatedly in the United Kingdom. Why? Why would British society place parents’ wishes below the wishes of the state? Because a bureaucratic society of experts generally sees parents as an obstacle to proper development. Parents, in this view, treat their children as chattel to be owned and trained — but the state can treat children with the dignity they are due. This means placing parental wishes to the side in every case in which those wishes come into conflict with the priorities of the state. The bureaucrats of Britain don’t merely usurp parental rights in the realm of life and death; they do so in the realm of upbringing as well. They have threatened religious Jewish schools for failing to inculcate children with LGBT propaganda; meanwhile, they have ignored the targeting of young women in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and Newcastle because the perpetrators are disproportionately Muslim. All of this is untenable, both morally and practically.”